Atticus

About Atticus

Fast, free voice assistant for your Mac. No API key: runs on your Claude Pro or Max plan. Sends background agents for big jobs, remembers you and learns your shortcuts. Hold ⌃⌥Space and talk. - SaarthurR/atticus-mac

Hi HN! I'm Saarth. I'm in 9th grade, and I built Atticus.Atticus is a fast and cheap Mac assistant that can do tasks for you. You hold down Control-Option-Space, speak or type your task, be it complex or a simple browser search, and Atticus will get on it.The interesting part is that simple tasks, like opening apps, playing a Spotify playlist, or web queries, don't touch AI, and instead are processed locally and typically finish in under a second. For example, prompting Atticus to open apps takes around 0.08 seconds, sometimes even finishing before you finish your sentence, sort of like Jev.Any tasks that are more complicated will be sent to Claude via claude -p, meaning you never need an…